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TR Vlog
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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As a music student in college, Paris Smaragdis taught computers how to play more life-like music. Today, the 2006 TR35 winner teaches them how to listen better. We recently talked with him about how--and why--he made that transition. For Smaragdis, machine listening could provide solutions to all sorts of unexpected problems, from security and building engineering to accident investigation. |
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We named Ling Liao, a senior optical researcher in Intel's Photonics Technology Lab, to our 2006 TR35 list for her work to enable the use of standard silicon in complex optical chips. When we caught up with her recently, she spoke to us about why computers may soon require high-speed optical data transmission. She also took the time to explain why ordinary silicon is the best material for the job, despite its optical restrictions, and how her team is overcoming those limitations. |
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
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Sumeet Singh, a technical leader in the applied research and architecture group at Cisco Systems, stopped to chat with us at the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT last week. He explained a bit more about the inspiration behind and inner workings of his system to automatically protect computer networks against viruses. |
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Friday, September 29, 2006
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Over a 24-year career, Roger McNamee has been one of the most successful investors in Silicon Valley, having made venture investments in Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Intuit, and Rambus, among many others. Then, in 2004, he launched Elevation Partners, a private equity partnership focused on media and entertainment content. Following his interview onstage at this week's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT, he spoke with us about his much-discussed investment in Forbes and how he hopes that technology will liberate entertainment. |
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
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TR35 winner Matthew Herren has a plan for improving education in Africa: beam in textbooks using one-way satellite radio. Technology Review asked him about the status of the project at the Emerging Technology Conference today. Herren explained how he hopes to make the most out of the continent's limited infrastructure resources. |
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
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Stephanie Lacour, a research project manager at the University of Cambridge in England, wants to take flexible electronics to the next level, by making them stretchable. Technology Review caught up with Lacour at the Emerging Technology Conference to ask her about the field's potential. In this video clip, Lacour also notes that the impact of her research might not be limited to biology: advertisers could benefit, too. |
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
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People attending the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT this week have a chance to see Motorola's next-generation phone, the KRZR. The company is also showing off some video-blogging software that's still in development. Motorola CTO Padmasree Warrior explains. |
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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When Bob Metcalfe talks about the future of the Internet, people take note. He invented Ethernet, the international standard for local-area networking. Technology Review caught up with Metcalfe last night at the opening reception for the Emerging Technologies Conference. He told us why he thinks Internet video could have a positive environmental impact by reducing the need to "press the flesh." |
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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Perio-Imaging Inc. of Delaware was formed in 2004 to launch an ultrasonographic periodontal probe. In this short video clip, the company's vice president and medical director, Fred Lane, describes how the tool works. The company's technology is on display at the Emerging Technologies Conference today and tomorrow. |
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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AOL's Jonathan Miller talked to Technology Review after his keynote address at the Emerging Technologies Conference today. In this vlog, Miller discusses how AOL is positioning video as a key part of its strategy. He also talks about plans for AOL's messaging services. |
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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Amazon.com's founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Bezos talks about S3, the company's "simple storage service" for data. Bezos spoke earlier today at Technology Review's Emerging Technology Conference about Amazon.com's emerging web services strategy. S3 is an integral part of that plan. |
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
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Christina Galitsky is Technology Review's 2006 Humanitarian of the Year and one of this year's TR35. The Lawrence Berkeley Lab scientist employs her training in chemical engineering to find solutions to environmental problems in the U.S. and abroad--particularly in poor countries such as Sudan and Bangladesh. She spoke to us recently about how seeing her innovations in action inspires her and what kinds of problems she hopes to work on in the future. Galitsky and the other 2006 TR35 winners will be honored at this year's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT. |
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Monday, September 25, 2006
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Technology Review's editors think Joshua Schachter's website, del.icio.us, is so cool, so useful, so ubiquitous that we named this TR35 winner our 2006 Innovator of the Year. Yahoo acquired del.icio.us last December, and the site has continued its phenomenal growth since then. Schachter talked to us late this summer about how his own memory influenced the development of del.icio.us and how it affects the way he innovates. Schachter and the other 2006 TR35 winners will be honored at this year's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT. |
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Friday, September 22, 2006
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For Marin Soljacic, a large part of the fun of innovation comes from working in a relatively new field: photonics. A member of this year's TR35, the MIT physicist builds theoretical models of tiny structures called photonic crystals. Recently, he spoke with us about the excitement of working in a field where theory and application are intertwined--and let us in on why he thinks photonic crystals could finally enable optical information-processing to make the transition from theory to practice. |
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
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Prithwish Basu has been interested in how people use technology to communicate since he was an undergrad at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. Since then, the 2006 TR35 winner has networked everything from robots to parking meters. Basu recently gave us a primer on his specialty: "ad hoc" networks--robust, low-power wireless networks that don't require a base station. He talked us through what these networks are, roughly how they work, and some of the applications they're best suited for. |
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
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Utkan Demirci, one of our 2006 TR35 winners, earned a PhD in electrical engineering, but today he works as a research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. His cross-disciplinary work has given him an intriguing perspective on how innovators can seek out the best problems to solve. He recently shared his opinions and ideas about working at the intersection of different fields with us. |
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Monday, September 18, 2006
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Manolis Kellis is a member of Technology Review's newest TR35 "class." The MIT computational biologist studied pure computer science as a student, and as he recently explained to us, he believes his current work still fits that description. In fact, his goal is still to understand machines--living ones. You can read more about Kellis's work in our profile of him or in his essay, "Finding Evolution's Signatures." Kellis will join other members of the 2006 TR35 at this year's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT, where the group will be honored. |
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
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John Chapin thinks that cell phones should be as versatile as PCs: plug in a new piece of software, and work in Paris, France, or Paris, Texas; connect to a WiFi network at your local coffee shop; or help locate a stranded rescue worker. The secret: software-defined radio. As chief technology officer of Vanu, Inc., Chapin helped design the first "software radio" approved by the FCC. He recently talked with us about how this technology is making its way into daily life right now.
Chapin will talk more about the benefits of software-defined radio (SDR) in an upcoming vlog, as well as at this year's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT. |
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
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Stewart Butterfield was another one of Technology Review's 2005 TR35, our annual selection of top technology innovators under the age of 35. In 2004, he and his team launched Flickr, now one of the Web's most popular photo-sharing sites, largely because of its innovative use of "tags." Recently, Butterfield talked with us about how Flickr's astonishing tenfold growth--from about 400,000 users a year ago to more than 4 million today--has changed nearly everything about running the site. |
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Sebastian Thrun knows that true innovation demands risk: the winner of DARPA's 2005 Grand Challenge took more than a few technological gambles to create an SUV that could drive itself across the Mojave Desert. He spoke to us about his love of that uncertainty--and of creating robots that might save lives. |
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Thursday, August 17, 2006
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In our ongoing project to catch up with last year's TR35, we sat down with Shiladitya Sengupta, now an assistant professor in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He talked with us about how the "nanocell" cancer treatment technology that initially drew him to our attention fits in with his philosophy of using technology to solve medical problems for everyone--not just the elite. Sengupta's passion for applying basic science to the creation of medicines that patients can actually use is unmistakable. |
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Technology Review's editors selected Yael Maguire as one of last year's TR35 recipients partly because of his cross-disciplinary bent. Even as the fulltime chief technology officer at ThingMagic, a company which makes the machines that "read" radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips, Maguire still finds time to explore his passion: the physics of computing. Yet, he told us recently, that hasn't slowed down the growth of ThingMagic or his vision for the future of RFID. And he explains how even technologies that fail help us along the way. |
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Technology Review's editors chose Bryan Cantrill to be one of the 2005 TR35, our annual selection of top technology innovators under the age of 35. As a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, he created DTrace, an application that allows system administrators and software engineers to track down bugs in real time. Cantrill recently told us that he absolutely believes software can be perfected--but that humans can never design it that way from the start. So how do we get from here to there? |
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Last year, Sebastian Thrun, director of Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, headed up the team that won the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's first "Grand Challenge" by creating an autonomous vehicle that completed a 211-kilometer course in the Mojave Desert. Here he talks about the even greater difficulties presented by DARPA's next Grand Challenge: creating a car that can navigate city traffic on its own. To say Thrun is enthusiastic about robotic cars is an understatement, but he also acknowledges that many of us will still want to drive on our own vehicle.
Thrun will discuss in more detail the future of robotic cars in an upcoming vlog, as well as in his keynote address at this year's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT. |
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Technology Review is proud to launch its new video blog (vlog, if you're one of the cool kids). Beginning this week we'll talk with some of the technology pioneers who will be speaking at our annual Emerging Technologies Conference on September 27-28. We'll also be catching up with last year's young innovators, the TR35, who are introduced every year at the ETC. On September 8, we'll begin sharing personal insights from this year's new class of TR35 honorees as well! Today our editor in chief and publisher, Jason Pontin, introduces our exciting new venture. |
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